Math goes to the movies / Burkard Polster, Marty Ross.
Mel Gibson teaching Euclidean geometry, Meg Ryan and Tim Robbins acting out Zeno's paradox, Michael Jackson proving in three different ways that 7 x 13 = 28. These are just a few of the intriguing mathematical snippets that occur in hundreds of movies. Burkard Polster and Marty Ross have pored...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 286 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Movies. Good math hunting
- The clever hand behind A beautiful mind
- Escalante stands and delivers
- The annotated Pi files
- Nitpicking in mathemagic land
- Escape from the cube
- The incredible shrinking room
- Murder in the hot house
- A word problem for die hards
- 7 x 13 = 28
- One mirror has tow faces, two mirrors have ...
- It's my turn for some serious mathematics
- pt. 2. Mathematics. Beautiful math, or better off dead
- Pythagoras and Fermat at the movies
- Survival in the fourth dimension
- To infinity and beyond!
- Problem corner
- Money-back bloopers
- The funny files
- pt. 3. Lists. People lists
- Topics lists
- Movie index.